Automobile dashboards now join Nokia phones, blood pressure cuffs, and battery packs made from potatoes: they can all run DOOM!
Original post has no mention on how he did it. He just sent someone in comments a link to a forum where they develop some sort of dev button. Nothing more. I call sus on this one.
I’m betting the infotainment system runs on Android and they side loaded Moonlight or something similar.
Edit: There is a comment on the reddit post where he said he used the update system to execute scripts with admin privileges
Linux, but you can run Android apps once you root it :)
It’s an excessively involved process at the moment, this individual managed it by using a common malware method, he imitated a legitimate OTA update but rewrote it to root the system. He was basically his own supply-chain-attacker: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/18/hacker-liberates-hyundai-head-unit-writes-custom-apps/
Didn’t realize folks would want a proof-of-concept of HOW it was done.
If you want a proof-of-concept, like steps for how to do the thing, that’s here: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/18/hacker-liberates-hyundai-head-unit-writes-custom-apps/
All this article does is just throws random hacker buzzwords for reader to get scared of a hacker boogieman. But, at least it has link to the blog. You shoul’ve sent it instead. This blog entry is what it should have been posted to begin with.
Haven’t seen that OP posted this link somewhere on their original reddit post. Reading “I hacked X and had fun” with only a picture doesn’t strike me as impressed. With a step-by-step journal - now we’re talking.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Figured I could trust you to find the link that says “WROTE A TUTORIAL.”
Getting Doom to run on something is not newsworthy.
Sure it is. Doom is a very optimized program with available source that for almost 20 years has served as a benchmark for demonstrating the ability to hack a piece of electronics with a display.
(This is the spirit of the post: Doom is a fun and silly demonstration of the software being hackable.)
They can get it to run on everything. We don’t need to hear about every damn toaster getting Doom on it.
It is not about the thing having enough power to run it. It is about hacking it to be even able to run arbitrary code on it.
It’s not interesting to you that a car that’s been around for 4 or 5 years only just now had Doom run on it for the first time? It took a long time to hack, so that’s kinda newsworthy
Okay, doomer.
I think it’s quite fun :)
you must be fun at parties…
No one wants to hear about a 30 year old game running on weird hardware at parties…
Oh yeah, but some random company launching the next version of the previous product that does exactly the same thing as the 10 previous iterations is?
Oh yeah, Whatabout this thing you didn’t say
You can just downvote and move on, why so dramatic?
That won’t stop the next 20 doom runs on your electric kettle stories from cluttering up shit.
